Title: Changing Discursive Trends in the Online Review Genre
Subtitle: A Cross-Linguistic Study of BlaBlaCar
Series Title: Utrecht Studies in Language and Communication
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Brill
http://www.brill.com
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/69944

Author: María de la O Hernández-López
Paperback: ISBN: 978-90-04-69411-8 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 97
Paperback: ISBN: 978-90-04-69411-8 Pages: 200 Price: Europe EURO 89
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-69412-5 Pages: 200 Price: U.S. $ 97
eBook: ISBN: 978-90-04-69412-5 Pages: 200 Price: Europe EURO 89
Abstract:

Around twenty years ago, with the digitisation of almost every facet of life, most businesses started including their own review system, so that their products could be rated and reviewed. This was the first wave of online reviews, called online consumer reviews (OCRs). The emergence of the smartphone and the proliferation of social media in the 2010s, however, resulted in a new ecosystem in which peers could share their assets, review other peers and be reviewed. This is the second wave of online reviews, or the emergence of online peer reviews (OPRs). This book explores the three differentiating discursive practices found in BlaBlaCar in Spanish and in English (emotive, relational and metacommunicative) as representative of this new wave. It demonstrates that OPRs have characteristics of their own, and proposes a new definition that captures the latest developments in online reviews in the context of peer collaboration.

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Spanish (spa)

Language Family(ies): Romance
West Germanic

Written In: English (eng)